A new study published in Ecology Letters has uncovered the mechanisms underlying plant community assembly and biodiversity ...

Endnight Games showed up for The Game Awards 2025 with what may be one of the most unexpected announcements of the night: Forest 3 is coming. A trailer for the latest in its line of popular survival ...

Migratory birds that fill North American forests with spring songs depend on Central America’s Five Great Forests far more than most people realize. New research shows these tropical strongholds ...

Australia’s tropical forests are the world’s first to flip a worrisome switch. The forests are now putting more carbon into the atmosphere than they are taking out, researchers report in the Oct. 16 ...

A federal order to increase U.S. timber production by 25% will touch all 18 of the Golden State’s national forests, officials said. The USDA said it does not yet have information about how many acres ...

The United States has announced sweeping changes to encourage more logging in the country's national forests. A new emergency order requires rolling back environmental protections on almost 60% of the ...

A memo from the secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture released last week outlines the Trump administration’s plans to quickly expand logging operations in the country’s national ...

Forests occupy one third of the total land area of the Earth and hold around 80 per cent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. It is estimated that nearly one third of the global population depends ...

Over the past four centuries, the United States has undergone a dramatic transformation, with vast stretches of forestland giving way to agriculture, urban development, and industry. Once covering a ...

The story goes that sometime during the last Ice Age, perhaps 20,000 years ago or so, small bands of seafaring humans followed the fertile coastal waters of the Pacific Rim from Asia north into ...

Cloud forests are strange and ghostly places — akin to coral reefs hidden high on tropical mountains. Stunted trees loom in the mist, gnarled trunks and branches crusted in moss, lichens, orchids, ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...